“The AIA Houston Historic Resources Committee is excited to launch the 2019 Spring Speaker Series. The goal of the series is to promote exceptional historic preservation/ adaptive reuse projects, lessons learned and innovative strategies that we, as community members and/or design and construction professionals can learn from when working within the context of existing and/or historic buildings."

Wednesday 30 January – David Bucek, FAIA LEED AP from Stern and Bucek Architects

• Title: Sustainability and Existing Buildings

Thursday 28 February – Dwayne Jones, Executive Director at Galveston Historical Foundation

• Title: “Faculty of Locomotion”: Historical Precedents to Coastal Resiliency

Thursday 21 March – Shanon Shea Miller, AICP, City of San Antonio’s Historic Preservation Officer and Director of the Office of Historic Preservation (OHP)  

• Title: Beyond Design Review: Education and Outreach for Historic Preservation

Wednesday 24 April – William Dupont, FAIA, San Antonio Conservation Society Endowed Professor

• Title: Cultural Sustainability in Cuba, Lessons on Architectural Design from Museo Ernest Hemingway

Thursday 30 May – Michael Kubo, PhD, University of Houston Assistant Professor of Architectural History, Theory and Criticism

• Title: Concrete and Steel: Reimagining the Modern